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To: Raj who wrote (39868)	11/10/1997 8:23:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (1) of 186894

It seems to me that the new "bug" is totally irrelevant to anyone running a single-user system. The bug cannot occur naturally, it must be put there intentionally with malicious intent. No one will put one on their own system. Whenever I download ANYTHING, it goes through a Norton Anti-Virus scan to check for viruses before being saved on disk. I am sure that soon (probably like 48-72 hours) the signature of this will be available from the Norton site as a "live update". Could you get around that with self-modifying code ? Of course, but if I am going to download a virus to begin with, there are a lot worse things that it could do than simply freeze my computer. I'll take a computer "freeze" over altering the files on my hard drive any day (not to mention, god forbid, a boot sector virus). So what we have here, as I see it, is simply a new way for a virus to do damage. But one that is probably less harmful than things that virus' already do.

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